Example sentences of "when [art] conservatives " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Conservatives swept to power in 1979 , just seven per cent of people owned shares . |
| 2 | But when the Conservatives gained power they did nothing to implement the scheme . |
| 3 | But when the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , local government found itself at the centre of a much wider conflict regarding the role of the state as a whole , and the position of local government began to be ‘ reappraised ’ . |
| 4 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 there were 1,087,000 jobless . |
| 5 | It would be true to say that , when the Conservatives were elected in 1979 , the composition of the nationalised industry sector had certainly not been arrived at by any clear sets of principles or criteria . |
| 6 | Duly , when the Conservatives were returned in 1970 , Ted Heath asked me to lead a delegation to see whether we could work out an agreement . |
| 7 | When the Conservatives are in opposition , the frontbench spokesman on each subject area is also chairman of the parallel party group , thus providing a direct channel of communication between backbench opinion and the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 8 | In practice , the minister has only once had to issue such a directive ( when the Conservatives after 1951 stopped any further action by the Iron and Steel Board ) as these reserve powers are quite sufficient to make the boards listen carefully to any suggestions made in a less formal manner by the minister . |
| 9 | The two main political parties had converged and when the Conservatives won the general election of October 1951 , the main lines of economic policy were maintained . |
| 10 | When the Conservatives returned to power in 1979 they further revised the PES system . |
| 11 | When the Conservatives came to power in 1979 , a series of inner area studies , commissioned by the government , had been completed and a White Paper , Policy for the Inner Cities , had been issued two years previously . |
| 12 | When the Conservatives came to power they continued these policies , but with the crucial difference that efforts to control local government expenditure reduced the resources available to inner urban areas . |
| 13 | Between 1984/85 and 1988/89 the tax ratio fell very slightly , but in April 1989 it was still higher than it had been when the Conservatives took office . |
| 14 | Even the substantial income tax reductions of 1988/89 have left the total tax burden in 1992/93 at 35.75% , which is higher than when the Conservatives came into office in 1979 . |
| 15 | He is the most amiable of men , and perhaps among the most idealistic , qualities that were severely tested in the last week of the by-election when the Conservatives allegedly used his ethnic origins as a campaign issue . |
| 16 | The privatized companies had together employed well over half a million people when the Conservatives came to power . |